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Jul
2019
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y Guillermo Ramas who has 20 years of experience in healthcare technology.OMNY—Data sharing, particularly about pharmaceutical usage, is at the heart of any healthcare system. An example that co-founder and CEO Mitesh Rao, MD, cites is the tracking of high-cost oncology drugs. Without centrali ...
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Jun
2019
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thout guidance from a medical professional. The most common prescriptions that yield excess doses, Youmbi says, include medications for pain, chronic heart issues, anxiety or depression. Youmbi, Manager of Pharmacy Regulatory Surveillance and Outpatient Pharmacies at Cedars-Sinai, offers her advice ...
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Jun
2019
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13:45 PM
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As a doctor practicing medicine in the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, James Kaliri, MD, has seen almost unimaginable horrors.
His hospital is known for being on the front lines of treating women subjected to sexual violence and a source of expertise for its entire region. Yet Kali ...
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Jun
2019
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To survive in his struggle against an aggressive form of prostate cancer, Bin McLaurin didn't only have to overcome the disease attacking his body. He said he also had to toss out his long-held image of masculinity.
For years, even after he came to work for Cedars-Sinai in 2011, McLaurin acce ...
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Jun
2019
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Lots of parents and children go into related lines of work. But not many do it with as much heart–literally–as one father-and-son duo at Cedars-Sinai.Fardad Esmailian, MD, transplants hearts. His 23-year-old son, Gabby Esmailian, is part of the crew that dashes around California and othe ...
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Jun
2019
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America/Los_Angeles
A new analysis conducted by investigators at the Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute shows for the first time that patients with a common heart defect who undergo catheter-based valve replacement procedures have the same survival and complication rates as patients without the defect who undergo the s ...
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Jun
2019
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06:00 AM
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ed, then there is nothing wrong with you.”But that thinking is incorrect, Bairey Merz told The Curbsiders. Bairey Merz has studied this type of heart disease -- called Ischemia with No Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease -- for more than 20 years and leads the National Heart, Lung, and Blood I ...
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May
2019
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n annual well-woman exam with other specialists in addition to a check up with their gynecologist. These well-rounded exams can check for things like heart disease, cognitive and mental health, risk of diabetes and cancer, obesity and nutrition, bone density and vaccinations.The interview also discu ...
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May
2019
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06:00 AM
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e stroke.A transcranial doppler test revealed that Rutchik had a patent foramen ovale, or PFO—a small opening between the two upper chambers of the heart.Everyone has a PFO at birth. In most infants, the hole closes shortly after birth, but in some cases, it does not. Complications from a PFO are ...
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May
2019
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14:31 PM
America/Los_Angeles
People magazine recently interviewed Cedars-Sinai patient and beloved fashion designer Betsey Johnson about her recent open-heart surgery and the “beautiful people at Cedars-Sinai” who took care of her. Just three weeks after undergoing open-heart surgery at the Smidt Heart Institut ...
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